Stenodus
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Stenodus
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Stenodus is a genus of large-sized whitefish in the Salmonidae family. It consists of two species; one of them (beloribitsa) is extinct in wild. The two species have alternatively been considered subspecies of the single species Stenodus leucichthys.
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Species
- Stenodus leucichthys — beloribitsa: the Caspian Sea basin
- Stenodus nelma — nelma, sheefish or inconnu: rivers of the Arctic basin.
Systematics
The genus Stenodus is not phylogenetically distinct from the broader freshwater whitefish genus Coregonus, although it is phenotypically characterized by a specialized predator morphology.[1]
References
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- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Stenodus in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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